New Name, New Direction, Same Old Songbook
You may have noticed some changes around here ....
Let’s start at the beginning. The beginning being today, when I started evaluating the last few years. The years have gone by since I started this blog, Substack has changed, my circumstances have changed, and I have been on adventures which I cannot possibly cover by simply writing them down.
One thing hasn’t changed though: my passion for writing and culture and self-expression, I would even wager to say that I have improved as a writer these past couple of years since I published my book. I just didn’t write as much, I had other obligations and a lot of other projects to get through (that’s not saying I don’t have them now, I’ll always have something to do, I think) but now I found myself looking back at this blog and thinking to myself: why?
“Why?” has been a question I have been asking myself about a lot of things lately. I used to just do things for the sake of doing them (simpler times) but now there is a need within me for greater motivation as I have realized that often our actions carry a lot of responsibilities and consequences that we do not think of. Often, these are irrelevant or immaterial and we should have the ability to look past them, but when one begins to have constraints on one’s time while simultaneously developing passions and enthusiastic furor for many other things in life, one cannot help wonder … “why?”. Why is something worth my time? Why do I always do this and not that? Why have I ended up where I ended up?
These questions are haunting, and yet unlike ghosts they are tangible and their answers, even at the smallest scale, have a profound effect on one’s life. And in trying to resolve this blog, I landed on the question of “Why do I do this blog?” and the answer to me felt incomplete when I actually came up with it. In brief, the answer was:
For when I feel the need to brag about something.
For when I feel the need to promote something.
For when I just want to write out my feelings (this use hasn’t been relevant for quite a while)
In coming up with these answers, I also came up with what was missing, and that wasn’t really motivation or enthusiasm, but investment. I was enthusiastic about ideas, even motivated to execute them, but I hadn’t applied myself well enough, nor had I invested the time and the subtle little tricks to make this publication the best that it can be. I hadn’t taken the responsibility I had for my own expression seriously.
And that finally brings us to this revamp. This is my blog. The blog of me. It’s why my name’s in the new title now. The blog is going to be different now. Though I am not a 100% sure in what way. There will be tech, but there will also be more. But more importantly, it will independently support the thoughts and creative expression of one individual: me.
You see dear reader, I feel a responsibility now to myself to create something that I can be proud of, that I can put up as a platform that shows not just career growth, or success, or serves as some sort of obligatory IT guy career tool, but is a genuine reflection of things I am enthusiastic about and is an independent expression of me, things that I do and see in my life and as many of my interests as I can fit on here.
It’s also going to be pretty damn entertaining.
So expect more from this blog (just as I expect more from myself now), I don’t know how, but I know soon.